AMusA, BTheol, BA, MA (Research), PhD
Kerrie Handasyde is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in History, Honorary Postdoctoral Associate, and Academic Learning Adviser at Pilgrim Theological College.
Kerrie researches Australian religious history, especially the denominations of Protestant Dissent, with a particular interest in religious fiction and poetry, visual and material culture, spirituality and the environment, women’s history, and historiography. Recent research publications include God in the Landscape: Studies in the Literary History of Australian Protestant Dissent (Bloomsbury, 2021), Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love, co-edited with Cathryn McKinney and Rebekah Pryor (Routledge: 2021), and a special issue on “Dialogues of Secular and Sacred: Christianity in mid-20th Century Australian Culture” in the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, co-edited with Katharine Massam (2022). Recent articles have appeared in Journal of Religious History, Pneuma: Journal for the Society of Pentecostal Studies, Colloquium, and the Stone-Campbell Journal; and (one co-authored with Anne Elvey) Women in Christianity in the Modern Age, 1920–today, ed. Lisa Isherwood and Megan Clay (Routledge: 2021). For a general readership, Kerrie has written and edited a number of commissioned history books and a denominational history periodical.
Her teaching in Church History covers the Early Church to the twentieth century, incorporating literary, feminist, and visual and material culture approaches alongside traditional methodologies. It includes units on Early Church, Reformation, Evangelicalism and Protestant Dissent, and Social Justice History.
Kerrie currently serves on the committees of the Religious History Association (Association for the Journal of Religious History) and the Australian Collaborators in Feminist Theologies.
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Academic Learning Advisor
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Honorary Postdoctoral Associate
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Associate Lecturer